Salt Lake City LT World Cup Day 1- Records, Olympic Opening, Short Track News, Rollerdome Opens Soon, IP Skate Tip, USARS News, Skating & School, REL

Salt Lake City LT World Cup Day 1- Records: Let the long track records fall! Yesterday, Canada's Jeremy Wotherspoon set the men's 500-meter world records in a time of 34.03 in Salt Lake City at this season's first world cup [see the 500-meter results]. Andrew Love was on hand to video the race and he added his commentary in More Records!!!!. See his video here or press play below. You can read Speed Skating Canada's article World record for Jeremy Wotherspoon at speed skating World Cup. You can also read Speed Skating World Online Magazine's piece called World Record for Jeremy. Makr sure you check out Speed Skating World Online Magazine for additional coverage.


If you want, you can see this video interview of Jeremny Wotherspoon on NOS. The video interview that got my attention is the one with Erben Wennemars after he equalled the 1500-meter world record 1:42.32- I don't know what he was saying, but he got quite choked up- see the 1500-meter results. You can also checkf out Flyin Brian's thoughts of day 1 racing in World Cup Day 1.


Jeremy Wotherspoon on his way to a 500-meter world record in 34.03 seconds- photo from Andrew Love
Today's competition has already started. For all the results, go here.

Olympic Opening: The thread on Bont's forum called Olympic Opening has seen its share of interesting and encouraging posts for roller sports. One of the recent posts says '...The 13th Olympic Congress, to be held in Copenhagen October,2 .. 2009
Front Runners for Exclusion or Inclusion vote up to the limit of 28 sports by a simple majority for both inclusion and exclusion of sports.

Hard work starts to pay off !!!

High chance to be Excluded:

1. Hockey
2. Cycling (banned)
3. Triathlon
4. Canoe/Kayak
5. Boxing
6. Modern Pentathlon
7. Archery
8. Handball

Top Ranking for Inclusion:

1. Roller Sports
2. Motor Cycle Racing
3. Rugby
4. Karate
5. Golf
6. Surfing
7. Squash

ROLLER SPORTSis in great shape ... '

Short Track News: The CITC has a report on the Ontario Cup ST #1.


Paisley Perrie in the Ontario Cup #1- photo from the CITC
The Alta Valtellina Trophy is taking place this weekend. You can check out all the pictures from Thursday through today. You can find live results thanks to ShorttrackOnLine.info.


Alta Valtellina Trophy- photo from Armando Trabucchi

I know this is not short track, but it's a video of a pretty popular short track skater who is skating long track- see Video clips: Apolo skating on the long track.


CadoMotus is planning on releasing a short track blade- see CadoMotus announces ST COMP & ST PRO Shorttrack Blades, coming Winter 08/09.


Speed Skating Canada has an article called Speed Skating Canada had seven finalists and five winners at the Soirée des Lauréats montréalais 2007.


Some of the finalists- photo from Speed Skating Canada
Rollerdome Opens Soon: If you live close to Minneapolis, MN, get ready because the Rollerdome's new season begins on Monday the 12th.


IP Skate Tip: The Inline Planet's latest skate tip- written by Winnipeg's Randy Plett- is called The Skater's Windup.


'Randy Plett leads the pack at the 2005 Online Inline Marathon in Brainerd, MN'- caption from the Inline Planet and photo from Darlene Prois
While I was browsing around on the Inline Planet, the headline New Date for St. Paul Inline Marathon caught my attention. Stay updated with the date changes and new events on the Inline Planet's 2008 event calendar.

USARS News: Here's a bit of news from USA Roller Sports- see the Official Notice and minutes from the 2007 Board Of Directors Annual Meeting- included are rule changes and dates for the 2008 USARS outdoor nationals. You can read and post thoughts here. Here's another thread you may be interested in; Potential USARS changes.

Skating & School: See the thread Skating as a school activity for more.

REL: Roller En Ligne has an entry promoting the 2008 custom Luigino boots.